A writer and researcher who returns again and again as a sceptical voice, most often working alongside David Clarke. In UFO Down, the pair took on the Berwyn Mountain Incident of 1974. Their argument was that the nurse had seen poachers' lamps, and that the zigzagging lights were police torches. In 2011 Roberts joined Clarke and Peter Brookesmith to revisit PC Alan Godfrey's Todmorden encounter in Fortean Times. Two years later, in 2013, Clarke and Roberts offered a simpler answer to the Solway Firth Spaceman photograph. Their explanation is now the most widely accepted.
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Researcher who obtained the report's release in 2001
Pro earlyResearcher who obtained the Working Party report with David Clarke in 2001
Co-author of Out of the Shadows (2002)
Researcher, co-author of the 2001 hoax analysis
Researcher; co-author of Out of the Shadows (2002)
Co-author with Clarke of the Magonia account
Co-author with Clarke of 'Solway Spaceman Solved?' in Fortean Times 305
Co-author with David Clarke of UFO Down, which argued for poachers' lamps
Pro earlyUFO writer and later partner of Gaynor Sunderland
Co-author of the 2011 Fortean Times reassessment
Ufologist who helped bring the document to public attention in May 2006